21st Century Toasters - Why Utilities Want You To Buy That Electric Car

Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 09:40 in Mathematics & Economics

Why would anyone bake bread and then turn around and toast it?I lived in a Pennsylvania house heated by wood. If we had some money, we bought some coal, but mostly it was wood. The idea of using our manual labor, in the form of wood, to toast bread was silly - but we owned an electric toaster. Somehow, being removed from the direct labor equation made it more acceptable. read more

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